well in the tax haven cyprus secures a last ditch ballo with the e.u. but it will inflict a big haircut for high level depositors and closed one of the country's largest banks. british police rule out a third party involved in the death of russian oligarch and from one critic of boris berezovsky. resignation rejected the syrian national coalition pushes its leader to stay in the post after he announced he was quitting because of a lack of international support for the rebels. just one time a most prisoners refusing food for forty eight days now but officials played down a protest that's off the radar in the americas key media.

it's eight am in moscow i met très a very good having you with us today here on our t.v. our top story there were fraud talks that went down to the wire with cyprus managing to clinch an eleventh hour bailout deal with his creditors to avoid a financial ruin there is a price to pay though people with more than one hundred thousand euros in the country's second biggest bank will see a chunk of that taken away and the bank itself will be broken up artie's tessera cilia has more from nicosia. it's really going to last for a hero trying to meet a twenty fifth. there will be a restructuring of the country's largest bank here popular bank of cyprus like you know what's going to happen is going to be having to create the concept of the good bad bad bank so first of those so one hundred thousand euros will be

protected and a move to transfer to a bank of cyprus that is the largest lender of the country well. above one hundred thousand euros will be taking a last. class. on sunday but the essential bank employees a limited dros of people can take from a.t.m.'s there was a one hundred you will remember so we can see the cash crop problem still. the ground up people are still really really frustrated and really anxious of what's going to be happening. and family members of loci bible run that is now is effectively going to be closed they've already been protesting into the streets and . drabs. frustrated with the fact that many people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually sending the people of cyprus memo to the

president of the country and so this is a deal that would be pleasing to the people of cyprus really be a reality but we see on the ground a lot of frustration. by the movement of the assets of the access to the money so that people here are just rude about the fact that they don't have cash in hand it's very difficult to access that savings are still going to be substantial and so we can expect the people here were not to be welcome in open arms. those cyprus rescue package approval has eased fears of a banking collapse there and raised hopes that attention can move towards some kind of recovery for the small island economy let's see what other effects it may have for the rest of europe. now we're looking at a worst case scenario here investors could pull their money out of europe's other debt stricken countries fearing the e.u. would force them to tax their bank deposits to savers would cause could well cause a run on banks in cyprus feeling their money is safe or in their own hands from now

on or under mattresses that would deal a blow to the capital that the banks would hold and could trigger another wide scale credit freeze these aggravating money troubles could well fuel euro skepticism at the moment sixty seven percent of cypriots want to leave the european union advisor warren paula tells us the hardships of small cyprus is a commie are part of a much bigger crisis. we're talking now about cyprus which has one point one five million people but in reality this is a global problem which has not been addressed since two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and previous to that with the issuance of huge amounts of debt and look into the system both year and in the united states and when that dead goes bad the only recourse which exists is to tap the remaining collateral in the system which is the saving sooner or later if you keep on sort of stealing savings you're

going to have popular unrest it's something which is of relevance in a country that is one point one five million people but when you start to see unrest let's say in france where they are not as strong financially as as germany i mean we can stephanie see the small countries being the test to see whether savings can be stolen on a wider scale. rescue package comes at a high cost for cyprus which struggle to keep its tax haven status the president there even threatened to resign at one point during the stormy talks with the troika dot com you can get more details and now assess on the ballot agreement and how it was through. well someone was always going to lose out the easy. there were only ever hard choices. on our website.

british police saying there's no evidence to suggest any third party involvement in the death of. the body of the. local kremlin critic was found in his saturday the death still being treated as unexplained. outside the police cordon. police continuing to investigate the unexplained death of boris berezovsky now in a statement they said the post-mortem will be carried out there had been a two mile police cordon. after the c.d.r.

and the investigators trained in handling radioactive material had given the scene the all clear the police have described taking a statement from the employee he found mr birdsall ski's body after forcing a pin in the bathroom door having become concerned for his welfare now that employee was the only other person in the house at the time the body was discovered another senior investigating officer here has said that they are keeping an open mind in the early stages of the investigation and that it would be wrong to speculate at this stage but of course that has been a huge amount all speculation. made his food chain after the breakup of the soviet union a hugely controversial character. be that with a party given by mr brzezinski his latest friday the day before he died in a conversation with a journalist he talks of his longing to return home to russia and we've also heard

from the russian president's press attash a he said that he months ago the president received a letter from verizon we can take a listen now to what. some time ago maybe some two months ago but it's sent a letter to putin himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes and to forgive him for these mistakes and. transfer them to. this letter did exist but it is most certainly the picture i think being built up of mr berger ski in his final years quite aside quite a lonely picture he was a larger than life characters that seem somewhat reduced in recent years have a number of high profile court cases here in the case the most recent of which is with raymond abramoff it people have described not just the psychological impact of losing that court case which quite humiliation for mr furze of ski but of also the

financial impact is well as he said the picture coming out of him and he certainly had seem to express in his final days a longing to return home and of course that hasn't happened and he is now the subject of the own going investigation here into his. boris berezovsky was at the top of russia's political life in the ninety's awash with money and influence early aurore sushi you discuss the tycoons legacy with peter lavelle host of artie's crosstalk. boris berezovsky here man who absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's a total and you stay in russia you stole it let's be clear here is not only didn't make this the even a woman i mean it pilate a manipulator ok he used the system what was happening in russia the political system had collapsed the economy had collapsed belief in authority had collapsed everything it was in collapse so he picked up pieces all the all over the place

where he was he didn't generate wealth you store wealth let's be clear about who they can you can you talk about in the end because you know talking off air about the the rule of seven of bankers that came out of this is where the term of darks came in i think was better software that invented it essentially that in one thousand nine hundred six a small number of people had a community enormous wealth but they wanted more and they said to yeltsin we'll get you reelected but you have to give me shares in state institutions barrel slot etc etc and he did it he gave the economy away so he ruled over very little had no power and because off he was at the top of the hill so this is how he generated his wealth ok he didn't earn it but now you talk about a wealthy man you met him and there's yes. ome arrogant useful of him self ok but a lot of security around him an enormous amount of security he was paranoid for good reason there were attempts on his life and he left because he was worried for

his life ok he took his money with him or at least a good part of it is hold a self-imposed exile in london and it was a solicitor sleep it was an escape he left it with him so he would have been charged with all kinds of criminal offenses all the reservation self-preservation not going to get out of and then revenge ok what about what about one of the you know one of the high profile cases was how the limousine company that been named the polonium poisoning worked for a bit of skin so litvinenko worked with. in what capacity to look for dirt to look for dirt on politicians on college and yes of course that was his job let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting at. i'm a bitch in court are we talking about billions you know massive massive legal deceit it was a really huge gamble on the part of betters often it was a gamble to have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove his current court would not work up slightly why gamble so he was a new i am just coming you know the end is coming he was running out of money you think he was running out of money is broke because

a lot of people question how much he was really worth was he worth these three point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a court battles with upper mortgage or maybe others that basically by step by step broken down he died alone interesting alone no friends is his wife and had little respect he lost his money he lost the respect he wasn't able to come home because we had heard recently that he had been trying to come back to moscow even pending illusional delusional do you think he wanted to come back or not i think he wanted to come back and as forgiveness no it was never going to happen whereas i was going to give a fierce critic of the kremlin's inzy move to the u.k. columnist married for me to pet a newspaper i think some foreign officials in the u.k. could see this as a chance to help improve russian relations. i don't think he particularly was a serious threat to the kremlin. i think that. fancied himself as a threat and maybe he wanted to be more of

a threat than actually he was. but the position that he held through the second half of the ninety's in russia obviously made me think of that period the figure of . his position when he died this weekend and the contrast between that and his position of power and influence in the late ninety's illustrates in some ways how russia has changed and how much russia has changed in those five ten years i think elsewhere behind the scenes in places like foreign office in the corridors of government they'll be you know i won't say they'll be doing something as improper as sort of dancing in the aisles but that is off he was a very awkward figure he was a big obstacle to diplomacy with russia and i think his death will be seen as i hope anyway as maybe removing an obstacle to better relations with russia already is following the ongoing hunger strike also at the guantanamo bay detention center

later we report on the protest and during its forty eighth day lawyers say more than one hundred inmates are using food risking health and lives about much is being said about it in the u.s. mainstream media. and death threats and arrest warrants haven't stopped stands for the reader from coming home rosemarie has ended his exile to make an audacious bid for a political comeback. but before we get to any of that the syrian national coalition refused to accept its leaders resignation was that i was he was quitting just months after being elected he was desire to leave is seen as a blow to the diminishing moderate wing of the uprising against president assad and the sudden void could be filled by a more radical opposition war from our middle east correspondent policy or. in his statement was said that he was stepping down because some matters have to quote him reached red lines now he hasn't explained exactly what prompted his resignation but

he did say that he was designing to be able to work with freedom that cannot be available from official institutions keep in mind that her to it was someone that both russia and the united states look to as a person that they could negotiate with on the future of syria back in february you had to admit with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov following his claim that the syrian opposition was ready to negotiate with syrian president bashar assad it is important to remember that this was the first time ever that the syrian opposition talked about the possibility of talking to a side although later backtracked by saying that he was willing to talk about the departure of assad with his vice president and his government but not with the syrian president assad himself now tips resignation does raise questions over the integrity of the syrian national opposition coalition it comes on the heels of twelve opposition members pulling out last week over the election of applying minister the tip has complained that there has been insufficient groundwork to

actually be able to form a government what we witnessing also is stark division among state not united picture at all and the opposition finding it very difficult to come to some kind of united stance on how to deal with the syrian regime with the tips sticking down is also seen as a sign of internal divisions it is seen as a sign of anxiety and so the question remains what does his resignation mean for efforts to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict. the u.s. is accusing iraq of turning a blind eye towards airspace being used by iranian flights travel weapons to syria secretary of state john kerry on a surprise trip to baghdad said iranian arms were sustaining syria's government iran insists is only humanitarian aid workers papadopoulos from politics first magazine things washing is being selective when it comes to noticing weapons shipments. well if i want that that u.s.

secretary of state that is ation against iraq it is ironic given that turkey saudi arabia and qatar who are strategic allies of america have been the ones responsible for the bloodshed in syria after their support for the syrian minutes and in the fall when the full model of cash weapons and islamist fighters so it's hypocritical for the us secretary of state to make it such a criticism of the syrian national coalition which is backed by the united by the west and by the islamist regimes all the saudi arabia and qatar is quite simply a ragtag organization which is made up of so many different groups and largely occupied by islamist groups so i think it's very dangerous for western powers especially invest any trust in the syrian national coalition and on them also who has actually flew to these people in certainly the syrian people haven't voted them in so i think they're very they're completely out of touch with the reality on the

ground in syria the anger a strike among part prisoners at guantanamo bay and today forty eight their plight still struggling to garner wider attention attorneys say more than one hundred inmates are refusing food but are concerned about their deteriorating health prison officials continue downplaying the protests and say there's little and there's little coverage in the u.s. media as are he's worried important i reports. in the world of twenty four hour news no country knows the power of media better than the us hard to believe it's been ten years since the shock and awe campaign that launched the iraq war we could have removed saddam hussein in another way that would not have been so damaging to iraq i mean a man had to go ten years later the killing continues in iraq without also continuing without adding that mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center but that topic remains off the radar of mainstream news and hid it from the

american public no i do not know to i have no idea. really according to the center for constitutional rights one hundred thirty kuantan no prisoners began a life threatening hunger strike nearly seven weeks ago to protest treatment and conditions at the island prison a prison america's president promised would be closed at the start of twenty tat do you think that that's a topic that should be reported by u.s. media yeah i think so. because they are being kept in prison by the u.s. so it's only fair that they get their views expressed that's what the whole country's built on the freedom of information to do that i mean i just think it's the right thing to do time square is otherwise known as the mecca of media messages millions walk through here on a daily basis flooded with information through new stickers plasma screens and advertisements but as we've learned even the most important stories can be ignored that nobody else is talking about this subject if this were happening in russia if

people had disappeared into a legal black hole in russia and were facing indefinite incarceration without trial without charge without attorneys would never hear the end of it the western media would be full of it human rights watch on the stands on national they'd be screaming from the. rooftops of westman stuff behind me but because this is an american crime because it's an american crime they're allowed to get away with it because the people who control the so-called mainstream media are fully on side with the agenda of the obama administration top u.s. general down calling for hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the u.s. detention facility when c.n.n. finally turned its focus to get this so-called worldwide leader in news ignored the hunger strike is there anything wrong with trying to improve it fix it spend

a few hundred million dollars to get it ready for maybe a new generation of terrorists instead focusing on the money being requested to update the facility where one hundred sixty six detainees are still languishing you know that more than half of the. kuantan now have been cleared for release i use the area. you know i didn't i had no idea that. i did not see as more than one hundred prisoners reportedly continued their hunger strike the u.s. military continues to dispute the figures however when our team first broke the story on march twelfth u.s. officials were denying that a strike was even taking place as you recall they started off by saying no one's on a hunger strike just the five or six people who have been on a hunger strike for many years you know then that figure was revised up to fourteen and now we're seeing the figure steadily increasing but to nowhere near the the extent that the that the prison lawyers are talking about and i think you know

hearing about how the lawyers are not being allowed to visit plus this big gulf between what the law is saying and what the administration is saying is indicative of the administration still trying to clamp down on means they don't want this story eggs and i think that that means that there is a very big story going on but in the business of broadcast news u.s. networks have to prioritize which big stories deserve the most attention that's right the canadians are using farting to combat smoking nancy grace first of all i want to express my condolences what happened to your necklace and former president bill clinton gets his way actress ashley judd will never be a united states senator. in hollywood liberal and pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has returned to his country after five years of self-imposed exile he was in the united states may he was the united states main political ally in the war on terror until stepping down in two thousand and seven amid increasing calls

for his impeachment which are of set his sights on a political comeback in the mail elections with a pledge to quote save the country but the u.s. is writing to withdraw from troubled neighboring afghanistan and taliban terror threats are mounting in the region political analyst sultan i'm holly things which are of is backed by foreign patrons patrons with their own stake in pakistan. the west has. to its advantage it looks for. the preference is always a military dictator but the situation now in pakistan is that a military dictatorship is possibly out of the question so the next best thing is to prop somebody who was their trusted man and you can find some evidence on it because saudi arabia has in fact. mr nawaz sharif who was his biggest opponent into keeping silent if you notice mr should have just returned from a trip and he has not even being called on it is saying that we cannot deny it post

and from his it up residing in bodies all in all so probably there is a method in that madness and a vested interest is that they would like to see their own man in place so that did teddies their practices and did interest in government as well as ensured by and that may be put raised by shadow let's take a look at some other stories making international headlines demonstrators against france's same sex marriage bill had to be dispersed with tear gas after they tried to break through a cordon on to the sham so you say it's estimated that three hundred thousand people turned out against the bill which is already been approved by parliament support for same sex marriage is waning in france although most of the anger was of leaders for prioritizing it over jobs and economy. gyptian president mahmoud morsi is warned that he will take unspecified measures to protect the country as follows friday's violent clashes between the opposition and muslim brotherhood supporters near the group's headquarters in cairo around two hundred people were injured latest outbreak of anger began

a week ago when muslim brotherhood members attacked journalists and secular activists during a protest. britain's prime minister has announced a massive immigration crackdown that would restrict welfare payments social housing and health care david cameron laid into what he called the something for nothing culture of those arriving in the u.k. and once the numbers of people allowed in to be heavily reduced it's largely aimed at the new e.u. member states like bulgaria and romania which are about to join the agreement allowing free movement and work throughout the bloc. in libya about two hundred former rebel fighters have besieged the prime minister's office to bad news a resignation they claim the country's political isolation law forbids members of the former regime from political life don was a diplomat during. the nation's eight month long civil war in two thousand and eleven. today or wanda is a bright example of african prosperity yet less than twenty years ago as witnessed

one of the world's worst ever genocides around two million people were lost later in cross talk peter lavelle's guess look at what's behind the country's leap. many people who are movie say hotel rwanda but today's wonder is different because i mean it's very vibrant and the gross weight is we'll since two thousand and ten the economy achieved more than seven percent g.d.p. growth rate per year yes the country's going to have a very tough transition but we have to recognize that development pass rwanda has been mapping out in tom's zero promoting economic freedom it's not an easy process it's not going to be done overnight but the country has been moving tours for greater economic freedom again it's not an easy process but the country has been demonstrating its willingness to achieve economic development they needed i don't think we can even talk about the economic growth with a clear conscience in their own though because most of the economic growth comes from the absolutely. unbelievable plunder of the neighboring come to see him go

on behalf of the us think company invest in governments that is an absolute cover up there talking about the genocide in one thousand nine hundred forty but in fact different to genocide so one in one thousand nine hundred four and that is ongoing genocide in which between six and ten million congolese people died and of course in uganda in unison a blunder in congo that's the essence of the economic growth. absolutely a known fact in europe in the united states it's an absolute coverup. and you can watch at full discussion coming up in a couple of minutes here on r t cross talk is next.

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